Eminem has revealed that he almost quit rapping after a bad reception at his first gig.

The hip-hop star said that he found being booed while on stage so "traumatic" that it nearly led to him giving up his musical ambitions entirely.

According to NME, Eminem divulges in Ice-T's new film documentary Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap: "The first time I rapped in front of actual people that mattered, in a club, I got booed. And it was very traumatic for me. I just remember it being so f**king traumatic, and I think I went home and I was like, 'Man, I quit'."

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However, he added: "And you know a week later, a day later, an hour later I got the urge, and I was like, 'I gotta get up, I gotta do it again'."